Improvement in cotton-presses



mut tatet NASH 'CHEEIQ OF CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA.

Letters Patent No. 110,549, daad memberl 27, 1870.

IMPROVEM ENT IN COTTON-PRESSES.

The Schedule 'referred to these ALetters Patent and making part of thelame.

The nature oi' Illy-invention consists in the con struction andarrangement of a cotton-press, as will be hereinafter fully set`forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertainsto make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe .itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing,in Which-Figure 1 is a side view, and

Figure 2, a. plan view of my press.

A represents the bed of my pres"s, upon which are standards, B B,suitably connectedand braced.

At the rear end of thebed A. and .secured 'against the last set ofstandards is the back-board Gprovided with vertical. grooves, and infront of the same is the bale-box D, which is so placed `between thestandards that it can be slid out and in at pleasure.

The box E, in front of the `bale-box I), is where the cotton is pnt into be pressed.

Thefollower or presser-block G hasvertical grooves on its inner sidecorresponding with the grooves in the back-board C, and it is attachedto a horizontal frame, H, moving in guides upon the bed A.

Upon each side of the frame H is secured a ratchetbar, I, in 'which atoothed pawl, J, is made to catch by means of a lever, K, pivoted on thebed and connected by means of a rod, a, withsaid toothed pawli The innerend of each lever K is providedwith a sehies ot' holes, as shown in fig.2, in one of which holes the rod ais attached.

By changing the rodsa a in these holes more or less purchase may beobtained, according to the force needed to press the cotton.

OnV top of the frame H is another ratchet-bar, L, into whicha hingedpawl, M, falls, to hold the presserblock and prevent it from giving backwhen the levers and toothed pawls are being changed.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination, with the-.horizontal frame H and the mechanism hereindescribed for operating the same, the ratchet-bar L and hinged pawl M,arranged sub'-A stantialiy as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the bed A, standards B, back-board C, bale-box D,follower G, frame H, ratchetbars IL, toothed pawlsJ J, rods a a, leversKK, and hinged pawl M, constructed and arranged to operate substantiallyas and furthe purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim they foregoing as my own I atx my signatureinpresence of two witnesses.

. NASHGHEEK. Witnesses:

T. F. GHEEK, J. F. FREELAND.

